The young Alessandro Bandini gives voice and body to the poignant and mysterious love story between the Italian writer, playwright, director and painter Giovanni Testori and the French art dealer and gallery owner Alain Toubas. PER SEMPRE is a show about the need to feel unconditionally loved and about pain, a visceral request to be able to love, a cry not to be forgotten.
The dense correspondence between Testori and his beloved Toubas, made up of letters written in French - which have never been translated, transcribed or published to date -, drawings and postcards, sheds light on an overflowing and at times blackmailing love, a disarming and unprecedented humanity, a side of the writer from Novate Milanese unknown to most that offers the possibility of rereading part of his work with a new, original and contemporary look.
The fulcrum of this work is the total confrontation, hand to hand, with Testori's word, a word that, deeply embodied in whoever pronounces it, is transformed into the interminable struggle of a human being in the face of his own fears.
texts from unpublished letters by
Giovanni Testori to Alain Toubas, I Trionfi di Giovanni Testori, private dedications by Giovanni Testori to Alain
Toubas, the song Volpe d'amore written by Giovanni Testori and sung by Alain Toubas
conception, dramaturgy and creation
Alessandro Bandini
with
Alessandro Bandini
dramaturg
Ugo Fiore
space dramaturgy
Alessandro Sciarroni
external gaze
Tindaro Granata
lighting design
Giulia Pastore
styling
Ettore Lombardi
production
LAC Lugano Art and Culture
in co-production with
Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d'Europa, CTB Centro Teatrale Bresciano, Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale
in collaboration with
Casa Testori, Institut Culturel Italien de Paris, La Corte Ospitale di Rubiera
with the support of
Inteatro Residenze, Armunia Foundation
